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Tunisia’s National Dialogue Quartet awarded Nobel Peace Prize

Don Melvin, CNN — Fri, 09 Oct 2015 18:34:45 +0000

(CNN) — The Nobel Peace Prize Committee confounded all expectations Friday — bypassing global figures such as Pope Francis and German Chancellor Angela Merkel — and handed the award to the National Dialogue Quartet for its “decisive contribution to the building of a pluralistic democracy in Tunisia in the wake of the Jasmine Revolution of

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Syrian official says ‘wide-scale offensive’ launched

Don Melvin, CNN — Thu, 08 Oct 2015 22:26:00 +0000

(CNN) — The Syrian regime, which had appeared earlier this year to be on the ropes, has “launched a wide-scale offensive,” a senior military official said Thursday (October 8). The aim, Syrian army chief of staff Gen. Ali Abdullah Ayyoub said on state media, is “eliminating the terrorist groups and liberating the areas and towns

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Scientists from Japan, Canada win Nobel Prize in physics

Don Melvin, CNN — Tue, 06 Oct 2015 06:32:44 +0000

LONDON (CNN) — Two scientists have won the Nobel Prize in physics for groundbreaking work showing that neutrinos — subatomic particles — have mass, contrary to what had been thought. The prize was awarded to Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald, the Nobel committee said, “for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos

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Russia launches airstrikes against al-Assad’s enemies in Syria

Don Melvin, CNN — Thu, 01 Oct 2015 23:49:20 +0000

(CNN) — Russia carried out new airstrikes inside Syria on Thursday (October 1), the country’s Defense Ministry said in a statement, a day after it changed the calculus of Mideast politics by entering the Syrian civil war on the side of President Bashar al-Assad. “Russian Aerospace Forces engaged another four #ISIS facilities in #Syria this

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Croatian officials: 2,400 migrants arrive in 12 hours

Don Melvin, CNN — Tue, 22 Sep 2015 23:24:40 +0000

(CNN) — The Balkan nation of Croatia grappled with an increasing wave of migrants on Tuesday (September 22), as EU interior ministers prepared to meet in Brussels, Belgium, to seek a solution to Europe’s worst migration crisis since World War II. Croatian officials said that 2,400 migrants had entered the country in just the past

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Greece: How did it get into this mess?

Don Melvin, CNN — Tue, 07 Jul 2015 03:23:42 +0000

(CNN) — Greece’s affair with the euro began with the grandest of hopes. The country approved the euro in 2001, in time to be among the first countries to use the new currency. At first, the most ambitious attempt ever to create a new multinational currency all seemed to go so well. The predicted problems

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New British princess is named Charlotte Elizabeth Diana

Don Melvin, CNN — Tue, 05 May 2015 02:58:46 +0000

The newest UK royal, a girl born on Saturday, has been named Charlotte Elizabeth Diana. Related: Welcome to the royal family: Catherine gives birth to a girl The middle names, of course, hark to her great-grandmother, the current queen, and her paternal grandmother, Princess Diana, who died in 1997. Related: Royal baby: Please don’t name

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